A few weeks ago, Bayer, the German pharma major announced that it was purging its middle-level management. Instead, it would empower its 100,000 employees.
This radical experiment is drawing a lot of attention and throwing up a lot of questions too. Is this reset to the corporate playbook of Bayer, the beginning of a new trend—in an era that is reinventing supply chains and influenced by the growing digitalisation of the economy.
To answer all this and more StratNews Global spoke to Debu Mishra, Partner and Head Advisory, True Search.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
